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Missionary  statistics 

FOR  KIUSHIU 

Prepared  by  the  First  Missionary 
Conference  of  Kiushiu,  held 
at  Fukuoka,  March  1910. 


TABLE  1. 

Population,  Kiushiu  and 

Okinawa 7,884,965 

Population  per  square  mile  ....  450 
Missionaries  of  all  denominations  . . 82 

Japanese  paid  Evangelistic  Workers  131 

Communicants 5,280 

Population  to  one  Missionary  . . 96,158 

Population  to  one  Japanese  Worker  60,190 
Population  to  one  Communicant  . 1,490 


TABLE  II. 

Population  to  One  Missionary. 


KIUSHIU  . . 
China 

India  .... 

Africa 

Japan 

Fukien  Province 


96,158 

104,819 

63,797 

40,027 

46,856 

60,520 


Arcot  Mission 69,444 

Amoy  Mission 93,750 

South  Japan  Mission 83,333 


TABLE  III. 

Population  to  One  Native  Worker. 


KIUSHIU  . 60,190 

Japan 24,046 

China 35,353 

India 8,230 

Africa 6,803 


Amoy  Mission 25,210 

Arcot  Mission 4,126 

South  Japan  Mission  ....  46,666 


TABLE  IV 

Population  to  One  Protestant 
Communicant. 


KIUSHIU 1,490 

Japan 851 

China 2,402 

India 563 

Africa 324 

United  States 5 


Amoy  Mission 1,710 

Arcot  Mission 858 

South  Japan  Mission 2,008 


Cbe  appeal  of  tbe  Japan  ilBleslons. 

The  Council  of  Co-operating  Missions,  represent, 
ing  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  Presbyterian  and 
Reformed  missionaries  working  among  the  Japan- 
ese people,  held  its  annual  meeting  August  5th  to 
10th,  1910.  The  morning  session  on  August  6th 
was  devoted  to  a Conference  on  Rural  Work.  A 
careful  study  was  made  of  the  religious  condition 
and  the  actual  needs  of  the  rural  population; 
problems  and  methods  of  rural  evangelistic  work 
were  dealt  with  in  papers,  and  animated  discus- 
sion was  carried  on.  There  was  entire  unanimity 
on  the  follovting  points: 

1 . That  the  rural  population,  fully  three-fourths 
of  the  population  of  Japan,  has  never  yet  enjoyed 
even  an  inadequate  presentation  of  the  Gospel. 

2.  That,  to  evangelize  this  rural  population, 
two  or  even  three  times  as  many  missionaries  as 
are  now  on  the  field  are  imperatively  needed. 

3.  That  such  reinforcements  of  missionaries,  to 
labor  principally  in  the  towns  and  country,  would 
be  welcomed  by  Japanese  Christians,  would  be 
protected  by  the  Japanese  government,  and  would 
enjoy  ths  fullest  opportunity  for  devoted  work. 

4.  That  it  is  extremely  desirable  that  American 
Christians  should  once  more  exercise  the  solici- 
tude for  the  spiritual  condition  of  this  island  em- 
pire  that  was  so  marked  a feature  of  their  attitude 
when  the  country  was  first  being  opened  up  in 
the  fifties  and  sixties. 

5.  That  special  effort  should  be  put  forth  to 
make  plain  to  missionary  volunteers  the  urgent 
call  to  self-sacrificing  service  presented  by  the 
unevangelized  millions  of  Japan — a call  second 
to  none  other  in  the  world. 

6.  That  the  missionaries  who  are  now  on  the 
ground,  though  many  of  them  confined  to  school 
work  and  others  to  evangelistic  work  in  cities, 
should  nevertheless  bear  on  their  hearts  the  bur- 
den of  the  untouched  missions,  and  should  be 
constant  in  prayer  and  supplication  and  endeavor 
that  Christian  heralds  may  be  raised  up  and  sent 
forth,  till  the  Gospel  message  shall  be  sounded 
forth  even  in  the  highways  and  byways  of  this 
great  empire. 


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